We’re hiring! Join us as an LSE Fellow in Media and Communications 💼

Ideal for early-career scholars to join our world-leading department. 🎓

⏰ Deadline: 27 April 2026 (23:59 UK time)

🔗 Apply here: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

#AcademicJobs #LSE #MediaStudies #ECR

"Grotesque" (1996.02.02)
S03|E14|3X14

Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Howard Gordon
Director of Photography: John S. Bartley
Art Director: Graeme Murray
#XFiles #TheXFiles

Fun CFP on The Politics of Cute with Public Humanities

Deadline for submissions 1 December 2026

Call for Co-Editor: International Journal of Event and Festival Management (IJEFM) The International Journal of Event and Festival Management (IJEFM) is seeking a new Co-Editor, to work as part of a team of two Co-Editors.About the JournalThe International Journal of Event and Festi...

The International Journal of Event and Festival Management (IJEFM) is seeking a new Co-Editor, to work as part of a team of two Co-Editors.

www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/ijef...

Child-Sacrificing Drag Queens: Historical Antecedents in Disinformative Narratives Supporting the Drag Queen Story Hour Moral Panic This paper uses critical disinformation studies to analyze claims that LGBTQ+ communities “groom” children at “Drag Queen Story Hour” (DQSH). We identify anti-homosexual narratives in previous mora...

If you liked this week's disinfo as narrative paper, you might like this earlier paper about the moral panic about Drag Queen Story Hour and how anti-trans narratives recreate older anti-queer narratives, which, we argue, is why they are so successful. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... [Paywalled]

Online Fandom: Justice-Seeking, Misinformation, and Disinformation This chapter examines the intersection of streaming true crime, fandom, and wrongful conviction advocacy. Using Bob Ruff’s Truth and Justice podcast as a case study, it explores how fan communities engage in investigative practices, crowdsourcing, and...

New book chapter ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Stratton, G. (2026). Online Fandom: Justice-Seeking, Misinformation, and Disinformation. In: Stratton, G. (eds) Streaming Justice. Crime and Justice in Digital Society, vol 4. Springer, Cham.

#FanStudies

doi.org/10.1007/978-...

Fans gather to bid farewell to Ianto's Shrine but is it the end? Fans of Torchwood and Doctor Who gathered together in Cardiff Bay on the weekend to bid farewell to an iconic tourist attraction which has attracted visitors from around the world. Ianto’s Shrine in M...

Sci-fi fans gathered together in Cardiff Bay on the weekend to bid farewell to an iconic tourist attraction which has attracted visitors from around the world - but a famous Welsh artist's cryptic message means this might not be the end.

I'm so looking forward to returning to my roots and talking about The X-Files at Writing the Occult!

SCMS needs you! The Volunteer for Service form is open now until Friday, May 8, 2026. Follow the link to find out more about these opportunities–join a Standing or Award committee, or be part of the Program committee and read submissions for the #SCMS27 conference in Montreal! buff.ly/8X2LhnW

this.deakin.edu.au/culture/how-...

Did you publish an article in TWC from 2023-26? We're seeking entries for the Fans of Color Prize, which recognizes peer-reviewed research about fans and/or fandoms of color published in TWC in the preceding 3 years. There's a $500 cash prize!
journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/tw...

Queer Women's Fandoms: Across Screens, Borders, and Desires Queer Women’s Fandoms: Across Screens, Borders, and Desires brings together new research that rethinks what queer women’s fandoms are and why they matter now. Fan communities where homoeroticism is cr...

Forthcoming new book ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Queer Women's Fandoms
Across Screens, Borders, and Desires

Edited By Jamie J. Zhao, Eve Ng

#FanStudies

www.routledge.com/Queer-Womens...

Dear folks! I am sending the invitation and warmly invite you join us on 7 May 2026 for two events!!! 🥳 🥳 🥳
QUEER ASIA AS METHOD LAUNCH EVENT
⏰ Time: 13:00–15:00, 7 May 2026
📍 In person: Bush House (SE) 1.05 / Online: Microsoft Teams
Register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/queer...

Book launch Dan Hassler-Forest: Fast and Furious Franchising Dan Hassler-Forest’s Fast and Furious Franchising charts the transformation of Hollywood through the story of one of its most successful cinematic universes.

The book launch event for FAST AND FURIOUS FRANCHISING is just two days away! Come join us in Utrecht for a fun hour followed by free drinks if you're in the neighborhood... www.uu.nl/en/events/bo...

CALL FOR PAPERS!

From Collective Practice to Cultural Heritage: The Lives and Archival Afterlives of Independent Film Collectives

ACTIVATE WP4 Conference
Penthaz/Lausanne, 18-19 March 2027
Cinémathèque suisse and Université de Lausanne

Call for Papers: "Gotta Hear ‘Em All: The Music and Sound of Pokémon"

Journal of Sound and Music in Games

online.ucpress.edu/jsmg/pages/s...

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🚨NEW ESSAY ALERT🚨Broken Connections: Fieldnotes from the Old Internet. The most personal thing I've written in years. I trace my history with internet communities & online relationships & how much of that is now gone. And a lot about LiveJournal. Open Access! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Tim Curry in The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Tim Curry in Clue

Tim Curry in The Three Musketeers

Tim Curry in Muppet Treasure Island

Happy 80th birthday to Tim Curry who has always, *always* understood the assignment.

Anyone working in history of comedy/satire, television, modern British politics - there's a fully funded PhD to research the Spitting Image archive @theul.bsky.social, with supervision at Exeter Uni. All disciplines considered, pls do share widely.
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

‘Women want to experience pleasure’: how the female gaze caught the attention of film, TV and fiction From passionate romantasy novels to premium television dramas, culture is bringing the agency, desires and interior lives of women to the fore. It’s proving good for business, but is this a permanent ...

www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

Unmasking the Fangirl in Superhero Videogames Superhero fandom has traditionally had a “boys' club” reputation. However, since the 2010s, grassroots initiatives such as cosplay, fan art, and social media activism have challenged these boundaries....

New article in The Journal of Popular Culture ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Unmasking the Fangirl in Superhero Videogames

Stephanie Harkin, Liam Burke

#FanStudies

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Amazing to see a translation of my first ever academic article from 2004 in here; a study of Buffy fans, spoilers and power

#FanStudies

Beyond local belonging: The socio-political construction of football fandom in Türkiye - Can Çavin Ötkan, 2026 This study aims to examine the fandom experiences of Ankara-based individuals who support one of Istanbul's Big Three football clubs (Beşiktaş, Fenerbahçe,...

New article ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Ötkan, C. Ç. (2026). Beyond local belonging: The socio-political construction of football fandom in Türkiye. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 0(0).

#FanStudies

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The IJDS is currently looking to fill two positions: editor and associate editor.

We invite applicants from a variety of perspectives, positionalities and backgrounds in order to reflect the global, multivocal engagement with the journal’s stated scope.

https://ow.ly/nARm50YIMex

Why are UK universities failing? - LSE Impact The HE sector in the UK faces the prospect of a university going into administration. How have universities fallen so low and is change possible?

🗣️"To speak of the “demise” of the UK university is not to suggest its disappearance, but its transformation into something increasingly unrecognisable."

#AcademicSky #HigherEducation

The BAFTSS and SCMS Performance & Stardom SIGs are delighted to invite you to their Inaugural Virtual Symposium: “Peripheries of Stardom and Performance”. The symposium will take place on Zoom on Thursday, May 7 and Friday, May 8 at 3:00-5:00 PM BST (10:00 AM-12:00 PM EDT), with 2 sessions each day.

Pulp released ‘His ‘N’ Hers’ 32 years ago on April 18, 1994 | Listen to the album + revisit our tribute here: album.ink/PulpHNH

International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics; The International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics is a double-anonymized peer-reviewed journal committed to analysing the politics of commu...

Call for Papers: International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics

Special Issue: 'Animation: creativity, technology, audiences'

Final Call: Abstracts due 4 May 2026

www.intellectbooks.com/internationa...

Amazing to see a translation of my first ever academic article from 2004 in here; a study of Buffy fans, spoilers and power

#FanStudies

PhD Fellowship within Cultural Heritage Tourism (294862) | University of Stavanger Job title: PhD Fellowship within Cultural Heritage Tourism (294862), Employer: University of Stavanger, Deadline: Monday, May 4, 2026

Amazing PhD Fellow opportunities at The University of Stavanger within Cultural Heritage Tourism.

Intangible Popular Culture Tourism (DC5)

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...